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CONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

PRINTER FOR

EARTED

COLONIAL

No. 88

C.0.

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Bro 13 FEE 05

Government House,

Hongkong, 12th. January, 1905.

Sir,

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احمد

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In continuation of my Confidential despatch of

the 11th. instant and in confirmation of my telegram of yester-

day's date on the subject of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, I have the honour to inform you that Mr. A. J. Barry, one of the Consult -ing Engineers to the British and China Corporation, on his way

from England to North China, called on me yesterday morning

with a letter of introduction from Mr. #. Keswick and that I dis-

cussed with bin various points connected with the proposed line.

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he informed me generally of the result of the re-

cent conferences in London between representatives of the Colo-

nial Office and of the Corporation of which I had had previous

unofficial information from Mr. G. V. Fiddes, C.B. of your De- partment and told me that the principal question now at issue was

whether the division of profits between the British and Chinese

sections of the tine should include also division of the receipts

for local traffic on the respective sections or whether these re-

ceipts should be retained by the sections for which they were collected. I pointed out that the rocky and mountainous country

which made the British section far more difficult to con-

struct must also result in the receipts for local traffic on it being much below the receipts on the Chinese section and that

the treatment of the line as a whole for the division of profits

would only be a fair return for the support given to the line as

THE RIGHT HONOUNABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.R.

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